Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉 Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community. #HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

New paper and blog post! "The Edwardian Property Slump: An Historical Analysis (1895-1914)" By A. M. Samy doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

This workshop is co-organised by @pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @victorgayeco.bsky.social, @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, @thomasbaudin.bsky.social, @mariebgl.bsky.social‬. Members of #econhist, @echistsoc.bsky.social, @theehes.bsky.social — please circulate! Many of you may be interested 🙌

Now on Early View: 'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'. By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger. @camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social ‪@yaleemd.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

At long last, my full book manuscript is off to the publisher for the final time. 18 months of 5am wake-ups have resulted in 110,000 words about Americans long, contentious struggle to come to terms with George Washington and slavery. Forthcoming from @uncpress.bsky.social in 2026!

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce” 📌 €25,000/year + fees 📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed 📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025 👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... #PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

⏰ Deadline Approaching – Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award ⏰ The European Historical Economics Society invites submissions for the Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award for outstanding doctoral work in economic history. 🗓 Deadline: 30 June 2025

New paper and blog post: "The Land of Opportunity? Social Class, Returns to Migration, and Occupational Mobility of Swedish Immigrants, 1880–1910" By M. Castillo doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

July 1 is the deadline for submissions to the SJ Butlin Prize ($1000) for the best PhD or Masters thesis on Australian or New Zealand economic history accepted from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. Enquiries to the selection committee chair at [email protected] 📉📈🗃📗🍎 #history #AcademicSky

We're looking for candidates to apply for a three-year postdoc! @marrv.bsky.social @tamboduc.bsky.social @upna.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/postdo...

#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

New blog post! Why did wages remain stagnant in Ottoman state textile factories during the second half of the nineteenth century? Tamer Güven (@tmrguven.bsky.social) constructs a new wage series for Ottoman state textile factories using unexplored archival records from the Ottoman Archives.

New article by Èric Gómez-i-Aznar: 📜🧮 Numeracy in 18th-Century Catalonia: A Key to Understanding the Role of Human Capital in Early Industrialisation? Published in EHES, exploring arithmetic capacity as an indicator of human capital before the Industrial Revolution. 👇 #EconomicHistory #Catalonia

📢 New paper alert! "The determinants of the skill premium in late medieval and early modern Europe, 1400-1800" by @BrioschiA (@QUBelfast and @ceph_ie) & Mattia Fochesato (@Unibocconi and @DondenaCentre) is now available for early view. Findings below! 🧵⬇️ #EconHistory #SkillPremium

I am happy to announce that my paper has been published as an advance article in the European Review of Economic History. @theehes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

Any great PhD or postdoctoral researchers out there who fulfil the attached criteria and who are interested in: 1) Formal logical models of electoral systems 2) Multilevel regression + poststratification 3) Digitising comparative elections data Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!

New blog post and upcoming article: "The political economy of skills, occupational entitlements, and social mobility: evidence from industrialising Coventry, 1790-1850" By Henderson, L. and Kaiser, M. ehes.org/2025/04/11/t...

New advanced article: The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach By G. Barone, D. Chilosi, C. Ciccarelli (@carciccar.bsky.social) and G. de Blasio. doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC ✅ 3 years 📊 Mixed methods 💰 Resources for data & conferences 👥 Good group of people working on similar things www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...

Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980 Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009 New working paper w/ @gottliebecon.bsky.social, @kevinrinz.bsky.social and @victoriaudalova.bsky.social on the rise of healthcare jobs

Our article 'Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white-collar jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)' has been converted into Open Access! See: doi.org/10.1093/ereh.... See the summary below by the EHES!

The 2025 PKES Summer School in Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy is open for registration! June 22–June 25, University of Greenwich. Places are available both with and without accommodation, starting at £40. postkeynesian.net/event/2025-p...

New blog post on previously announced paper! #persistentbusinessfamilism #SouthernItaly #economichistory #sna #didmodel ehes.org/2025/03/13/t...

New publication "The Roots of Business Familism in Southern Italy. A Quantitative Analysis of the 19th Century" By R. Rondinelli, M. C. Schisani and G. Ragozini doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

New paper "Anatomy of a premodern state" By L. F. Costa, A. Henriques and N. Palma (@nunopgpalma.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

New publication "The Elderly Bias of the Spanish Welfare State (1958–2012)" By G. Souto, A. Herranz-Loncán, S. Espuelas, G. Abio and C. Patxot doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

📢 We're Hiring! 📢 I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @sdueconhist.bsky.social to work on research in health care, education, and medical innovation in the US. 👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk 👉Deadline: 7 April Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq

Today LSE's own Noah Sutter (@noahsutter.bsky.social) presented his paper "A Testament to Revolution - New Data on Wealth at Death and Wealth Elasticity Estimates for France, 1791-1870" in our graduate seminar.

New Publication Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg By F. Wahl (@wahlfabi.bsky.social) and T. H. Huning (@thilohuning.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

‼️ Call for papers: 📌 Young economic historians 📌 Any research and 🌎 areas welcome! Come visit us in beautiful Göteborg! And 🫵🏻 don’t forget to spread the word!

New publication Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890) By Gabriele Cappelli (@gaber86.bsky.social) and Johannes Westberg (@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

New publication Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

We're catching up on blog posts for our latest publications. There will be a few every couple of days untill we're caught back up. The X account is also going inactive as we build back up here.